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David wrote a blog post on our participation in the GSoC 2009 . It refers to the GSoC 2009 Wiki entry where the mentors have posted a few ideas (yes, we actively encourage students to come up with their own!). As I am the program manager, I am not active...

On December 5th (revision 3655), we removed the WPF designer from SharpDevelop 3.0. The decision to remove this feature had its origins in an internal discussion between Daniel, Ivan and myself after watching the PDC 2008 session Microsoft .NET Framework...

In case anyone gets a wrong idea, take a close look at the title bar - it has the word "experimental" in it: The reverse integration of the WPF branch is the first step in the direction of "more WPF" in SharpDevelop 4.0 (this screenshot...

Our Wiki has a guideline on joining the team which outlines the process of submitting code to the project. As part of this year's #develop developer days (#d^3) we decided on a change to the guideline: It is now possible to contribute "any-size"...

This addin integrates Microsoft StyleCop into SharpDevelop. StyleCop only supports C#, and this addin has been tested against StyleCop 4.3 , earlier versions won't work. Features Line highlighting of the warnings found Change StyleCop settings on...

Because the question keeps coming up repeatedly in the forum, I want to repeat the most important pieces of advice from the last thread in this blog post. Firstly and most importantly: If you use SharpDevelop 2.x, you must use TortoiseSVN 1.4.x. If you...

If you receive the following error message but have TortoiseSVN installed, then you have run into the following snag: SharpDevelop 3.0 is explicity marked as 32 Bit application, thus it cannot use the x64 version of TortoiseSVN. Solution: install TortoiseSVN...

Running SharpDevelop on USB thumb drives has been possible for a long time. What is new in version 3.0 though is that the settings that usually go into the user's profile can live directly on the memory stick - allowing you to take your settings with...

In addition to our presence on SourceForge ( project page ) we now also set up shop at CodePlex ( project page ). The motivation for this step is to increase awareness about SharpDevelop, and how parts of SharpDevelop can be reused in other applications...

A change that happened rather early in the development process of SharpDevelop 3.0 (revision 2658, 8/13/2007) was that we replaced NDoc (a stalled open source project) with Sandcastle Help File Builder (SHFB) . SHFB looks and feels similar to NDoc, however...

This question came up for example in the thread SharpDev 2.2.x on BuilderServer (this thread was started because we ceased to automatically build v2.2 on 1/11/2008). The answer is Yes . Development of SharpDevelop 2.2 stopped with revision 2675 (8/28...

In continuing to list changes to SharpDevelop 3, we are going to talk about the code coverage addin in SharpDevelop 3 "Montferrer" in this blog post. Previously, the addin used NCover for calculating code coverage (this is a metric you gain...

An issue that initially came up in 2006 ( Unable to compile #develop: access denied ) "resurfaced" on our contributors mailing list because one of our developers ran into this very problem that McAfee blocks access to our Main\StartUp folder...

Over the past months we made a couple of feature changes in SharpDevelop 3 (currently alpha status). One major change is that we moved NAnt and Mono support from the binary distribution (aka "setup") to the source code distribution. You can...